From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 7 11: 1:23 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from eagle.phc.igs.net (eagle.phc.igs.net [207.210.17.201]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4208C15834 for ; Wed, 7 Apr 1999 11:01:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from eagle@eagle.phc.igs.net) Received: from localhost (eagle@localhost) by eagle.phc.igs.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id NAA84273; Wed, 7 Apr 1999 13:54:55 GMT (envelope-from eagle@eagle.phc.igs.net) Date: Wed, 7 Apr 1999 13:54:55 +0000 (GMT) From: eagle To: Jim Pazarena Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: changing shell in passwd In-Reply-To: <9904070135.aa17363@dick.ccstores.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 7 Apr 1999, Jim Pazarena wrote: > I installed one 3.1 system, added bash, then added a user with bash as shell. > No problems with bash as a login shell. > > I installed another 3.1 system, added a user, *then* added bash, > then changed /etc/passwd to reflect bash as the shell for the user. > > When the use signs on to the second machine he does _not_ get bash; rather > he gets the original shell EVEN THO /etc/passwd points at bash. A reboot > didn't change the results. > > What am I missing? > check /etc/shells to make sure that bash is listed there rob To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message